I'm a very keen beekeeper and have been thinking about this idea of monitoring hives for ages and now thinking in terms of arduino in the hive to monitor sensors, bluetooth the data from the sensors back to pi in shed nearby and wi-fi info to webpage, am in very early stages with the pi at present and havent even looked at the arduino but any help gratefully received.

We are getting into beekeeping, and part of the process is to get the local children involved. Technology is high on our list, and it was in looking for some tech that we could use, that I stumbled in here. Total newbie to RaspPi, but eager to learn and see what can be done. For now, we are just hoping to be able to put in an IR cam and temp sensor and have it able to be viewed by the kids online.
any advice is greatly appreciated!
kind regards from Norway
Cynthia

As I'm still in a build/test phase there's not much point in me sharing data yet - it's only recording information from within my house at the moment
Once it's in a hive, I should be able to extend the data posting to include your repository.

I'll happily pass on my experiences with the sensors as I make progress.

I've made a point of sharing all my code on the site to anyone that wants to make use of it.

If you feel it's appropriate, feel free to point people to my site. My electronics knowledge is poor and to be honest, any advice would be gratefully received.

This is a bit of a thread necro, but we spotted this in the news this morning, which sounds like it may be the culmination of the project mentioned a couple of years ago by the OP. Read on for chilled bees.

I'm a beekeeper, and my team and I have been working with local beekeepers from the Santa Barbara Beekeepers Association for the past year to develop this idea to remotely keep an eye on our hives, and monitor hive health. We've now created something like a health monitor for honey bee colonies we call EyesOnHives.

We had to create an image processing algorithm that could quantify hive activity, and a device to capture data and video, and upload it to the cloud for further analytics (between hives, pulling more data, and over longer times).

We’ve been running a pilot with 15 hives for about a year now and so far local beekeepers have told us that EyesOnHives helped more quickly manage ant infestation, robbing and queenlessness. It's pretty exciting, and we're now trying to spread the reach.